Read the sentence.Leila stared at the driver of the shiny red convertible stopped in the middle of the intersection, incredulous that he would stop traffic just to yell at another driver behind him.What does the use of incredulous connote?
Read the sentence.Sarai discovered that some of the materials she tested were malleable enough to serve as springs for her robot.What type of context clue can you use to determine the meaning of malleable?
Read the sentence.Lori is as strong as an ox, so I'm sure it will be no problem for her to help you bring those boxes up to the third floor.What type of figurative language is the phrase "as strong as an ox"?
Read the excerpt from Robert Frost's poem "Mending Wall."He only says, "Good fences make good neighbours."Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonderIf I could put a notion in his head:"Why do they make good neighbours? Isn’t itWhere there are cows? But here there are no cows.Before I built a wall I’d ask to knowWhat I was walling in or walling out,And to whom I was like to give offence.Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,That wants it down." I could say "Elves" to him,But it’s not elves exactly, and I’d ratherHe said it for himself. I see him thereBringing a stone grasped firmly by the topIn each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.He moves in darkness as it seems to me,Not of woods only and the shade of trees.He will not go behind his father’s saying,And he like having thought of it so wellHe says again, "Good fences make good neighbours."
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